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Peter Limbrick's Investigation of Settler Cinemas Now in Print

Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 2:46 pm — ijbloom

Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, by Peter Limbrick (Palgrave MacMillan 2010)

In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond readings of narrative and representation, this book studies the production, distribution, reception, and reexhibition of cinema across three settler societies under the sway of two empires. Investigating films both canonical and over-looked, Making Settler Cinemas not only shows how cinema has mattered to settler societies but affirms that practices of film history can themselves be instrumental in encountering and reshaping colonial pasts.Read more and order the book...